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Episode · Invest Like the Best · 2022-02-22

Patrick O'Shaughnessy & Frank Slootman: books mentioned on Invest Like the Best #265

Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 265]

2 books · With Frank Slootman · Listen

My guest today is Frank Slootman, Chairman and CEO of cloud platform Snowflake. Frank has become one of the most revered CEOs in business.

Patrick O'Shaughnessy recommended Amp It Up by Frank Slootman, and discussed TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story

    Frank Slootman · at 2:33

    TAPE SUCKS: Inside Data Domain, A Silicon Valley Growth Story by Frank Slootman is a firsthand account of the author's time scaling enterprise tech company Data Domain through disruptive storage innovation and rigorous operational execution.

    Discussed
    “I think I first came across your thinking and your work reading tape sucks very early in my career and loved some of the lessons from there.”
    Patrick O'Shaughnessy Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like… 2022-02-22
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  2. Amp It Up

    Frank Slootman · at 2:42 · mentioned 4 times

    Amp It Up by Frank Slootman is a high-energy business book that outlines strategies for driving hypergrowth, raising expectations, increasing urgency, and elevating intensity within corporate environments.

    Recommended
    “And then when Amp It Up came out, the original LinkedIn post and now book, it became kind of one of my Bibles that I hand out.”
    Patrick O'Shaughnessy Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like… 2022-02-22
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
“by the way I just did a session with Pat Lencioni who wrote five dysfunctions of a team”
Frank Slootman Frank Slootman - Narrow the Focus, Increase the Quality - [Invest Like… 2022-02-22
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